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Dostana Movie Review
This is a one of those mindless comedies which could have been more entertaining if it hadn't been for the insensitive and stereotypical portrayal of gays. The producers have gone on record saying that it is just a comedy and that the subject has been handled sensitively but this is debatable.
The movie is about two guys and a girl and is set in Miami. Right at the start of the movie Sam (Abhishek Bachchan) and Kunal (John Abraham) put on an act of being gays – all to get to share an apartment with beautiful Neha (Priyanka Chopra). The movie is centered around the comic situations which arise because of this pretense. The movie is worth seeing either/or you have nothing to do, like the actors concerned, like mindless comedies, are curious to see what Karan Johar has to say about gays, and want to make up your own mind as to whether gays are portrayed sensitively or not.
November 14, 2008 5:09 pm
I have to say that this review could not have been timed any better!
I was just about to book tickets for Dostana, and now that I have read your review, that's a sure NO NO
Aathira, it depends on whether you like these sort of movies. I can enjoy mindless comedies at times (depending on my mood!) but this one made me wince because of the way it made fun of gays. – Nita.
November 14, 2008 5:36 pm
Good header image… Also is it a good idea to edit the comments to insert your reply?
well, I do it because it enables me to do it without going to the actual post. Quite a few people do it nowadays. – Nita.
Vipul permalinkNovember 14, 2008 6:25 pm
Nita – I like your life!
Can we trade spots?
Yeah sure! Juggle the freelance work (movie reviews for me are often work but yes, they are far easier than my other freelance work) of which I have three assignments on hand right now, plus cook two meals a day for a hungry family, do all the shopping, manage the household, and ofcourse blog…to just to give you an idea, I get so little time that I drink tea standing up and when I am exercising I am always looking at the clock! However I do love my life as it is one I have chosen. 🙂 – Nita.
November 14, 2008 7:40 pm
I had some very bad premonitions about this movie when I heard Abhishek Bachchan, in a promo, say "This is a happy,gay movie, not gay in the homosexual sense". Your review kind of confirmed it for me.
The first thing your review brought to my mind was "Kal ho na Ho" and the sad way in which gayness was introduced into the plot(incidentally the recent Airtel ad, one of the worst of its kind, kind of plays on that angle). It's clear that while Karan Johar might have made one small step in his portrayal of gays, Bollywood has a long way to go. The timing, in the context of the section 377 case in India and the Proposition 8 vote in California makes it all the more ironic.
Miles to go before we sleep!
Prasanth, all that Karan Johar has done is actually talk about homosexuality, and as you said, it's one small step and there is a long way to. The context you mention makes the whole thing pretty sad. I don't think we Indians are ready to accept homosexuals into society. – Nita.
November 14, 2008 7:49 pm
john abraham kind of looks very oglable … and i have friends of both genders drooling about him .
Harini, yeah he is that alright, but somehow he is not my favourite. I prefer Abhishek. – Nita.
sangeeta permalinkNovember 15, 2008 12:15 am
I will surely avoid this one.
I am not sure Nita but I think the Marathi film 'Umbartha' with smita Patil did touch upon this topic fleetingly.
Sangeeta, I saw Umbartha a long time ago and therefore I do not remember much. I remember the beginning though where she touches upon various social issues concerning women if my memory holds me right. – Nita.
November 15, 2008 8:41 am
I don't expect this movie to cause a revolution or something, but if things are being discussed on Karan Johar scale, they will surely be noticed. Ofcourse, making a mockery or stereotyping any group is not the type of comedy I enjoy.
Yeah, you are right, at least the issue is being discussed! – Nita.
Vivek Khadpekar permalinkNovember 15, 2008 11:12 am
@ Sangeeta:
Umbartha touched upon it much more than fleetingly. And it was a very serious film, poles apart from what this one appears to be from Nita's post.
November 15, 2008 3:53 pm
Priyank Dostana isn't making mockery of anything thats so close to the producer's and director's heart. KJ is simply in the act of "breaking the news" so to speak to an audience that is fed with Saas-Bahu 24/7. Indian literature or regional lang does not explore the idea in any sensible way, unless you turn to Sanskrit, but tht too is limited and who reads it anyway? Least of all average mums. the film starts wth Karan's letter "I love you mum" and if u notice the mum's who is being addressed here.
He never was the kind to scream off rooftops anyway, n like ODEZER points it out up there is it easy in a country which still doesn't even accept the existence of such things? Bec eng language contains material and literature people still automatically associate ths with the West, so Karan's way is the right way for the auto wallah and especially nanoo-munu narm-sharm ignorant mum. Let her hear and listen and get used to the word first, then let the "sensitive" portrayal come.
Watch it with "Birdcage" if you can and see how its in the West too.
It takes a lot of dohrana before some minds start accepting things as a course of reality.
Every woman shd watch it. Karan is just playing with the theme but underlying messages, the subversive thngs imp : 1) Gays may not look like Boman all the time, they cd look like Abraham or Abhishek 2) they may not do all tht effeminate shaking of fingers like Boman but casually put an arm around each other on the streets looking like close friends but could actually be lovers…these are what he is trying to show the unsuspecting people who sees these thngs and dnt even notice here in India!
Its going to be a hit, Karan has taken the first n right step is my view.
Well, yes you are right it does tell us that gays are a part of society but in my opinion we can do without insensitive portrayals precisely because gayness is not accepted in our society. These kind of movies will increase people's biases and strengthen people's beliefs that being gay is some sort of disease! And in any case, I felt that Abhishek and Abraham are continously reinforcing gay stereotypes by mimicking some silly gay "mannerisms." About it being a hit, well, it might well be! It's a laugh riot although the jokes are on gays. – Nita.
November 15, 2008 4:06 pm
O and Nita the header is lovely – so many picyutes u had to combine? doesnt show, pl dnt change it for a while and goes beautifully wth this film: At A Bend in the Road (hopefully towds better understanding n tolerance). Its so full of possibilities 🙂
Thanks! 🙂 – Nita.
November 16, 2008 1:00 am
I have been debating whether I should watch this movie or not. I am tempted only because of John Abraham and I'm quite sure that we can't really expect anything stellar from Karan Johar. 🙂 Maybe I should just skip this and save my money!
P.S- Lovely header. One of the best so far!
Ruhi, thanks. About this movie, it's only been produced by Karan Johar, not directed so I am not sure how involved he was in the nitty gritties. But yes KANK by KJ was a disaster in my opinion. And yeah John Abraham here is chocolate candy if you like those muscular types. But John acting is below average in this movie. And the jokes are lame, and the movie drags.- Nita.
November 16, 2008 5:41 pm
@ Shefali, thx (am concerned abt pple who wdnt know what 'temporal' is or comedy of manners, or that The Birdcage is da-da-da, they wd watch it, be able to relate to the boys fear that his in-laws may not give their daughter to him if they knew his father was Gay and that he had been brought up by a male mother, whn his biological mother had sought a divorce n left his father, laugh at the cross dressing whn they try to escape paparazzi, love the osngs n notice the dialogues n the dilemmas and remember – also some wd relate terms make an association, bas, purpose of sensitization is served, beta).
Yup, see thts what, Water indeed had sunk like lead. So itni mehanat bekar mein gayi na? We cdnt hve afforded to hve another proj, and a 45 crore one at tht to meet wth the same fate.
If u stay afloat, u serve the cause. And no, at this stage, I wdnt recommend 'serious' for the kinds I happen to live with or meet at the local store.
I want this movie to hit sky high and wish every Indian aunty, mummy, wives, girl friends, puzzled women to go watch. At least tht wd be a good warming up bef their Gay- DARs (from RADAR) r honed and come alive or awake (wh ever be the rt term. For their own sakes).
Am not worried abt the Gay's welfare alone, they hve org groups n huge funds all over the world now n powerful coteries. But these hapless women have no one, not even the govt. N PSBT content is out of their reach. I want the women to know too, recognize what is what n deal with it instead of dragging on wth impossble marriages etc. If they hear it 7 times, it wd register, then they mght just might ask quesns, n gradually it wd sink in.
Did u notice here we are so blind tht we didnt even notice there was a pair of successful Gay designers introduced in Fashion, both the manly-effeminate types.
@ Nita, am sorry too for hogging ur space, but I guess, it goes to ur credit tht u do bring ppl together n manage to excite somethng close to debates. thx. I wd be proud the day it happns in my own space but sadly, I cant write the way u can, or have the same standing or charm, so for a structured review I hv sent everybdy here, to u from my blog.
Pl, pl, dnt forget to write abt today's meeting. Er- and Nita can u change NT to Rolling please? That last cmmnt, its pers too maybe if we cd del tht?… Sorry, ma'am for the trouble, m so excited 🙂 m smiling all the time now. I wd be one sad person if ths movie fails – really. 😉
I changed NT to Rolling in two comments that you requested. Also I deleted your last comment. Hope that is the one you meant. – Nita.
November 16, 2008 5:51 pm
Men too, infact, bec in India prob is half of them dnt even know they ARE gays and end up getting married and beating up hapless wives the rest of their miserable lives. Upar se they are shy and scared. I wd rather we keep on guiding ppl what they shd watch it and how rather than tell them its bull shit. Karan cdnt hve at ths stage made a movie with the central characters Gay. Do u rembr Fashion was delayed released bec of some kiss? Well, Karan managed to get away wth his even tho this one is actually far more passionate wthout being vulgar, provocative,suggestive or steamy. This kiss was filmed wth sheer joi-de-vivre wth the Gay insiders laughing over our heads actually, "see, folks we did it, n cleverly too, n u cant lay one dirty discriminating, incriminating finger on us, buddy, everythng is legal – and socially approved – they are not Gays, actually, but we show wht cd hve been" this is the point I believe. But I cd be wrong. Wth tht wd let it rest, Shefaly.
U can hit me some later, abhi movie dekho 🙂
November 16, 2008 6:05 pm
@ your Avatar reminds me of a woman I admire a lot but dnt know where she is currently…Taslima Nasreen. Tht picture reminds me of her.
She had written somewhere, "when I die, I wish to die like a crow, when one dies – ajoot, nijoot, thousands and crores gather around to help the spirit on in its strange journey to an unknown world". Implication, whn a man dies, he dies alone.
What kind of a film wd she have made if she cd, I wonder…
Abhiroop permalinkNovember 16, 2008 8:24 pm
I think any movie which deals with homosexuality in a mature way will face two problems:
1)Mainstream stars will shy away from it. "Image kharab ho jaayega"
2)The right wing will go mad.
Nice review 🙂
Also, its great to see a blogger so responsive to reader comments.
Abhiroop, thanks. Actually I think you are right. The reason that these two stars must have agreed to act in such a movie was because the movie makes fun of gays. – Nita.
November 18, 2008 2:03 pm
My main goal when I watch a movie is to be entertained. My goal was easily met and Abhishek Bachchan was simply awesome in the movie,especially in the art of cooking stories.
Nandu, I agree and that is my main aim in watching movies too. But I do not enjoy funny movies which make fun of minority groups and you can put it down to my own extra sensitivity. I definitely do not look down on anyone who does enjoy such movies, and that is why I have said that please do go and see the movie for your own reasons! In fact despite myself I laughed quite a lot in the movie and was entertained but the movie left a bad after taste. I also do not enjoy comedies in which women are constantly the butt of jokes. – Nita.
November 18, 2008 11:50 pm
As a homosexual, I couldn't at all relate with the characters portrayed in Dostana. And for everyone's information we do not run like what Abhishak did during his Venice narration. I know it was shown that way to enhance the comical effect. But sadly that's exactly the image most of the people have about gays and seeing Abhishek doing such stuff, it will only beef up their misconceived beliefs, "See? I knew it. Look even Abhishek is acting that way!"
I admit, I had quite a few laughs. But then again, I didn't feel like I was laughing at gays, I was laughing at the comicality. Whatever be it, Karan Johar was successful in penetrating the word 'gay' into the average households. I guess that was what his intention too, taking baby steps. Now that majority of Indians are aware of homosexuality, and also when we hear phrases like, "Dostana is what in now", "Wanna do a Dostana?", let's hope Bollywood succeeds in moving away from the stereotypes. And no Bobby Darlings please!
Ravi permalinkNovember 19, 2008 2:56 am
The movie sucked and Karan Johar sucks!!! But I really want to go and stay in Miami for sometime 🙂
Ravi permalinkNovember 19, 2008 2:59 am
shefali x Rolling fight! fight!! fight!!! … lol 🙂
November 21, 2008 7:53 am
Nita, my review on Dostana.
November 21, 2008 4:30 pm
Well, I don't think this Movie Should be taken seriously, its a typical Bollywood, Money making Movie.
there was no Scene in the movie, which you think should be talked so much.
Homosexual relationships are Shown exactly the way they are seen in our Society, there are just handful of people who only talk about it.
But, if this thing happens to their own child, they will react exactly like Kiran Kher did in the moive.
November 23, 2008 11:11 pm
@ Crazy Sam, wd be in to read ur revw soon, and I agree wth you completely when u say he got the word in alright, and yes, it was a baby step in the RIGHT direction 🙂 but there I guess most readers here wdnt agree…
@ Ravi, you had me in splits…I enjoyed the banter so MUCH…. 🙂 hope Shefaly didnt mind tht much
Am thankful to Nita and Shefaly and Rambodoc and Priyank for really drawing me out at times, considering am actually a very shy, reticent person, came back to write my own blog after nearly six months and been writing almost every week since I have been here.
Somethng abt this space is stimualting.
Nita's readers rock 🙂 love the party here 🙂 thx.
manisha permalinkNovember 24, 2008 6:25 am
I think we need to understand that indian society is just not ready to see homosexuality in a serious manner. Indians in general are a very conservative bunch and if karan johar had done a serious KANK type of movie where homosexuality was treated in a delicate way, just in terms of the box office and making money on the movie, it would have flopped. That's reality.
So at this point unfortunately, openmindedness is just not an option and homosexuality won't be accepted wholeheartedly by the older or present generation of indians….maybe the future generations…we can only hope 🙂
gayathri permalinkNovember 24, 2008 8:10 pm
dostana was all blaaaaa….i by mistake happend to watch it. I rather suggest everyone to go and watch Dasvidaniya coz the story was good, though I cant say the same about it's execution.
November 24, 2008 8:28 pm
Manisha, you are so very RIGHT 🙂 thats why he did it the way he has. He is an intelligent man of the times with his finger on the pulse of the Indian population alright and am NOT a KJo fan myself, but this even caught my attention, so he must have done his 'job' of taking a baby step to start the 'sensitizing' thing in a way that might just get the 'word' in, so to speak.
At this point 'openminded' seriousness, sensitive is just NOT an option in mainstream cinema. TRUE.
November 24, 2008 9:40 pm
May be too late, but yes I had been to movie after reading reviews across various blog. And thought of putting up comment only after seeing the movie.
Well i just wanted to have a good time after having set back form much much disappointing "GolMaal Returns".
This movie kept me and my school friends on edge of seat laughing. Not to mention sizzling Priyanka Chopra and awesome Maimi blues.


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30 November 2012
7 Egyptian Christians, Florida pastor sentenced to death for anti-Islam film
An Egyptian court convicted in absentia Wednesday seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor,
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The case was seen as largely symbolic because the defendants, most of whom live in the United States, are all outside Egypt and are thus unlikely to ever face the verdict. The charges were issued in September amid a wave of public outrage in Egypt over the amateur film, which was produced by an Egyptian-American Copt.
The low-budget "Innocence of Muslims," parts of which were made available online, portrays the Prophet Muhammad as a fraud, womanizer and buffoon.
Egypt's official news agency said the court found the defendants guilty of harming national unity, insulting and publicly attacking Islam, and spreading false information -- charges that carry the death sentence.
Maximum sentences are common in cases tried in absentia in Egypt. Capital punishment decisions are reviewed by the country's chief religious authority, who must approve or reject the sentence. A final verdict is scheduled on Jan. 29.
The man behind the film, Mark Basseley Youssef, is among those convicted. He was sentenced in a California court earlier this month to a year in federal prison for probation violations in an unrelated matter. Youssef, 55, admitted that he had used several false names in violation of his probation order and obtained a driver's license under a false name. He was on probation for a bank fraud case.
Florida-based Terry Jones, another of those sentenced, is the pastor of Dove World Outreach, a church of less than 50 members in Gainesville, Fla., not far from the University of Florida. He has said he was contacted by the filmmaker to promote the film, as well as Morris Sadek, a conservative Coptic Christian in the U.S. who posted the video clips on his website, were also among those charged.
In a telephone interview Wednesday, Jones said the ruling "shows the true face of Islam" -- one that he views as intolerant of dissent and opposed to basic freedoms of speech and religion.
"We can speak out here in America," Jones said. "That freedom means that we criticize government leadership, religion even at times. Islam is not a religion that tolerates any type of criticism."
The connection of the other five sentenced by the court was not immediately clear. They include two who work with Sadek at a radical Coptic group in the U.S. that has called for an independent Coptic state, a priest who hosts TV programs from the U.S., and a lawyer living in Canada who has previously sued the Egyptian state over riots in 2000 that left 21 Christians dead.
The other person is a woman who converted to Christianity and is a staunch critic of Islam.
The official news report said that during the trial, the court reviewed a video of some defendants calling for an independent Coptic state in Egypt, and another of Jones burning the Quran, Islam's holy book. The prosecutor asked for the maximum sentence, accusing those charged of seeking to divide Egypt and incite sedition. All of the defendants, except Jones, hold Egyptian nationality, the agency added.
Some Christians and human rights groups worry that prosecutions for insulting religion, which existed to a degree under the secular-leaning regime of Hosni Mubarak, will now increase with the ascent of Islamists to power.
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The Byron Society of America announced January 22, 2010 that it has chosen Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, as the new home for its Byron Society Collection. The collection of almost 5,000 items, including rare books, portraits, letters, and other priceless material, will be housed with the Drew Library's special collections, where students, scholars, and members of the public will be able to access it. Robert Weisbuch, president of Drew University and a specialist in nineteenth-century British and American writers, stated in his welcome: "The arrival of this collection will provide a feast of research opportunities for scholars and undergraduates alike."
Included in the Byron Society Collection are letters from Mrs. Byron, Thomas Moore, and Lady Byron, and the splendid collection of 1,900 volumes, including many early and rare editions, together with 600 booklets and 60 material objects belonging to collector Michael Rees, former secretary of the International Council of Byron Societies. Papers, correspondence, books, and photographs once owned by the late Leslie A. Marchand, author of Byron: A Biography, and editor of Byron's Letters and Journals, likewise form an essential part of the collection's holdings. The collection also includes visual representations of the poet, such as Rembrandt Peale's 1825 lithograph of Byron, as well as statuary, mezzotints and engravings, Staffordshire figures, and decorative and other material objects that demonstrate the impact of Byron's life and works on his readers, both past and present.
"The deposit of the Byron Society's important archive of books and cultural materials in the Drew University Library is one of those events that do not often capture public attention," noted Jerome McGann, editor of Byron: The Complete Poetical Works. "But it is a moment in the history of the university where its commitment to the preservation of our cultural heritage is clearly displayed."
Drew University (http://www.drew.edu) is known for its special collections and archives, including distinctive holdings on Willa Cather, Walt Whitman, John Wesley, and the history of world Methodism. Discussions between Drew and the Byron Society began when it became known that the university had been given the coveted Byron and Whitman holdings of private collector Norman Tomlinson.
"Drew is the natural home for the Byron Society Collection," commented Marsha Manns, chair of the Byron Society of America and co-founder, with Leslie A. Marchand, of the Byron Society Collection. The library's current holdings, including the Tomlinson Byron Collection, along with the value placed on collections of material culture and the university's willingness to provide wide access to the collection, were all important considerations for the society." Scholars agree. "The settlement of the Byron Society Collection at Drew University opens exciting new opportunities for research and teaching in material culture," said William St Clair, author of The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period and That Greece Might Still Be Free, "Given the rich collections already there and Drew's pioneering work in studying the reception and diffusion of ideas, I see a perfect fit. Many scholars and others will wish to be associated with this imaginative project."
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Gabe Hudson, a 2006-07 Hodder Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and lecturer in the Program in Creative Writing, has been named to Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists" list.
The list was first issued by the literary magazine in 1996 to recognize outstanding new American writers. This is only the second time the publication, which is based in London and New York City, has bestowed the honors. Princeton creative writing professor and author Edmund White was one of the six judges who selected the 21 winners.
Also honored was 1999 Princeton alumnus Jonathan Safran Foer, author of the critically acclaimed debut novel "Everything Is Illuminated." The writers were recognized March 1 during a ceremony in New York.
Hudson's first book in 2002, "Dear Mr. President," was a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters. This collection of short stories about the Gulf War by Hudson, a former rifleman in the Marine reserves, also was named best book of the year by GQ, The Village Voice and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Joyce Carol Oates, the Roger S. Berlind '52 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton, has called Hudson "one of the most exciting and innovative young American writers today."
Hudson is the editor-at-large for McSweeney's and serves as faculty adviser for the Princeton student magazine Green Light. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, BookForum, GQ and The Village Voice. Hudson's upcoming novel, "American Buddha," will be published by Knopf and an excerpt from the book will be featured in an issue of Granta.


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Chiefs split a pair
The White Pigeon baseball team split a pair with Eau Claire Thursday night.
The Chiefs won the opener 7-0 behind the two hit pitching of Shaun Harmon. He also struck out seven.
Matt Eger had two hits and two RBI, Harmon and Mitch Boatman both added a base hit and one RBI.
Dakota Stamp had a double that scored a run, Parker Krough had a single and Jordan Lucas drove in a run.
The second game was a pitchers dual, won by Eau Claire 3-2.
Taking the loss was Brock Carper. He allowed just two hits, while striking out 10.
Harmon and Lucas drove in the two Chief runs. Collecting hits were Eger, Lucas and Krough.
Centreville 11-15, Howardsville Chr. 1-0
The Centreville baseball team swept Howardsville Christian Thursday night.
In the opening game, the Bulldogs fell behind 1-0, but plated eight runs in the bottom of the third, taking control of the game.
Centreville added a run in the fourth and two in the sixth.
Getting the win was Geoff Miller, who allowed four hits, while striking out five.
Chase Alexander, Miller, Nick Kelly and Calvin Ludwig all had one hit and two RBI.
Jalen Brown had two hits and one RBI and Michael Kool picked up a RBI.
Caleb Logan had two hits and Gabe Schrock had one.
A 10 run fourth inning ended the second game 15-0.
The Bulldogs scored three in the first and two in the second.
Ludwig notched the victory, allowing just one hit, while fanning two.
Alexander led with Three RBI on two hits.
Chris Carpenter drove in two runs with a hit and Jacob Milliman had two RBI.
Logan drove in a run with a hit.
Nick Kelley, Robbie Monroe and Ludwig all had one RBI.
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Parchment 12-7, Constantine 10-0
Constantine was swept by Parchment Thursday night.
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The Panthers led 2-0, but the Falcons rallied to score four in the third.
Parchment took the lead for good scoring five in the fourth and four in the fifth.
The Falcons made the game close, plating two in the fifth, three in the sixth and one in the seventh.
Taking the loss was Luhk Mullendore.
Dominick Rodgers led Constantine with three hits and three RBI.
Bruce Heslet knocked in two with two hits.
Zach Sherman had two hits and one RBI, Tommy Reed drove in a run with a hit, both Cody Mallo and Sawyer Brown had one RBI.
Nate Petoskey had two hits.
In the second game the Falcon hitters were held to just three hits in a 7-0 loss.
Reed had two of the Constantine hits, with Heslet getting the other.
Taking the loss was Nic West.
Central Noble 5, Lakeland 4
Central Noble scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh to earn a 5-4 win over Lakeland Thursday night.
The Lakers one run in each of the first four innings to lead 4-3.
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The blog's been quiet with both the team and me out of town for the last week, but the week ahead should be packed with action as the Nationals return home to continue their interleague series against the American League East.
Tonight, with the Blue Jays arriving at Nationals Park, the team will officially unveil some new fan concessions, including another reason to favor our favorite racing president.
Teddy's Barbeque is located on the centerfield concourse, near the kids' play area and the Build-A-Bear workshop. The team says to expect "authentic Carolina-style barbeque" including beef brisket and pulled chicken sandwiches.
Teddy's Barbeque will also feature what the team is calling a new Nationals Park "signature item" — the Rough Rider Rib — a jumbo beef short rib brined for 12 hours then slow-smoked for 12 hours more.
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Former Yreka teacher Smith enjoys watching former team in NCAA tourney
Vern Smith has a passion for March Madness and the NCAA Basketball Tournament.
"When a game is on I watch it," Smith said, and added that he is glued to the television watching basketball this time of year. And, Smith know a thing or two about the tournament, having been a participant in his college days.
March Madness this season has been quite an enjoyable one for the retired Yreka High teacher and guidance counselor who has lived in Yreka since 1970.
His Wichita State Shockers are playing in the Sweet 16 as a No. 9 seed after upsetting top seed Gonzaga in the West region last weekend. They take on another surprise team in La Salle, the No. 13 seed, tonight in Los Angeles.
Smith was a starter on the Shockers basketball team that made the NCAA Final Four in 1965.
Smith believes Wichita State should be able to pull off the victory and move on to the Elite 8. After that, Smith said "It's going to be a lot tougher for them.They have been looking good, but it's win or go home," Smith said.
As he has done for a number of years, Smith is taking part in an NCAA Tournament poll with family and friends. Smith still has all four of his Final Four teams still left. His picks for the Final Four are Kansas, Louisville, Indiana and Ohio State. At this time, Simth said he would not be surprised if fellow No.1 seeds, Louisville and Kansas make it to the finals but said he believes that it is certainly not set in stone, with upsets taking place a distinct possibility.
Smith, who is from the state of Kansas, said if the Jayhawks make it to the finals he would be rooting for them.
"My heart is with them," he said.
But what happens if Wichita State makes it to the finals and faces Kansas? That's an easy one to answer, Smith said,adding that of course he will be rooting for the Shockers.
"It would be crazy," Smith said with a smile. "I would love it."
Last season, Smith and his wife received tickets from their kids for Christmas to the first two rounds of the NCAA tournament in Portland,Ore. It so happened that they got to see the Shockers play. While Vern won't be going to any tournament games live this season, he said he is more than content to root for the Shockers at home.
When asked if being a former player helps him make picks, Smith said that while he is knowledge in the sport, it can be a crap shoot. After all, he said, he has been part of bracket contests where someone with a limited amount of knowledge about college basketball wins or fare well.


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Just found a link to all the passages shortlisted for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award from the U.K-based Literary Review, won Tuesday by Norman Mailer's The Castle in the Forest, which defeated books by Ian McEwan, Jeanette Winterson and others. The Guardian (formerly the Manchester Guardian) has them here: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2217735,00.htm
That link will take you to them, but if it doesn't work for you, just Google "Guardian + Bad Sex Awaard Shortlisted Passages." Still haven't found a YouTube upload of the reading of the offending lines that preceded the announcement of the winner. The finalists included Gary Shteyngart's Absurdistan, shown here.
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Burning Questions of the Damned: Are Naevia's Loose-Cannon Ways a Liability for Spartacus?
Who needs leaders anyway?
On Friday's Spartacus: War of the Damned, both Spartacus (Liam McIntyre) and Marcus Crassus (Simon Merrells) may as well have been missing for all the heed their underlings paid them. Although that may seem like an oversimplification of the situation, wartime is when obedience to the leadership hierarchy is crucial, lest chaos rule.
Spartacus at least appeared to make some headway in providing for his people by allying with the pirates, but Crassus lost men and the element of surprise when Tiberius (Christian Antidormi) flouted his dad's orders with a botched sneak attack on the rebels. How will the disobedience affect the war? And is Naevia (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) just? Check out our burning questions from "Men of Honor" below:
Are Naevia's loose-cannon ways a liability for Spartacus? No one should have undergone the atrocities that this former slave experienced, but she is prejudiced to the point of killing or maiming harmless Romans, who could be assets. For the record, sweetie, you laid hands on Attius (Cohen Holloway) first, not vice versa. Of course he responded violently! Spartacus will have to start policing his own men before they murder or alienate all of his useful Roman allies, including Laeta (Anna Hutchinson).
Can Heracleo (Vince Colosimo) really be trusted? Although it appears that the pirate leader successfully forged an alliance with the rebels, both sides were prepared for betrayal. The pirates' flaming cannonballs saved the day when the Romans attacked, but we wonder why the projectiles were so handy, ready to be launched in the first place. Only Spartacus' men were expected that day. Also, the pirates, like mercenaries, are interested in profit, and therefore their allegiance can be bought.
Wow, Agron, jealous much? Nasir (Pana Hema Taylor) barely had time to enjoy harmless flirtation with one of the pirates before Agron (Dan Feuerriegel) put the beatdown on the interloper. Feuerriegel tells TVGuide.com, "The way I justify the fact that he is so jealous and protective of his loved ones was that he lost one of the most important people in his life, which is his brother Duro (Ande Cunningham) and he felt responsible for that. And so there's this underlying desire with him to be the protector. That's why he's Spartacus' bodyguard, and that's why he needs to protect and look after Nasir. I think when he sees that there's potential of Nasir leaving him, it hurts him in the way that he lashes out is to be violent, to be jealous, to be angry, hateful, all that sort of stuff. That's how I justify it. Doesn't mean it's right."
Will there be repercussionsfor hiding the Roman prisoners? Spartacus had unshackled Laeta so that she could move freely and report mistreatment of her fellow Roman survivors at the rebels' hands. But by spiriting the Romans away to hide under the floorboards of the stable, she broke Spartacus' trust. If her betrayal is discovered, Spartacus will have a tough time showing her mercy before his bloodthirsty generals.
Is Saxa, like, the coolest girlfriend or what? This is the second time that Saxa (Ellen Hollman) has brought other women to share with Gannicus (Dustin Clare) in the bedroom. It appears that the usual rules of monogamy or gender roles do not apply to them.
"Saxa and Gannicus are 71 B.C. rock stars, essentially," Hollman says. "They live life to the fullest. They crave battle, wine and women. With that common thread it's disastrous, it's fiery, it's strong, it's everything that you imagine it to be. For the most part [their relationship] really is equal. He's not against letting her have the reins, and vice versa. She doesn't feel like she has to prove herself in front of him. You'll actually see in Episode 3 that there's more of a domestic side to them, which is really beautiful to see ... At the root of the relationship is a friendship and it's based on respect."
How is Tiberius in battle? The pup is fierce, but he's not yet the wolf he wants to be. He also had the bad judgment to attack Spartacus prematurely, which went against his father's wishes and is such a no-no for a soldier. Crassus is a smart man, and he'll realize that this disobedience can't be gone unchecked.
Rebels/Romans/Pirates Say the Damnedest Things:
Heracleo: "You'd be surprised by the reach of my stream, boy."
Attius: "I once drained six cups and found myself in heated argument with imaginary cat!"
Drunken, naked rebel: "My c--- is magic!"
Crixus (Manu Bennett): "Then let us see it vanish from sight."
What did you think of "Men of Honor"? Is Naevia out of control?
Spartacus: War of the Damned airs Fridays at 9/8c on Starz.
View original Burning Questions of the Damned: Are Naevia's Loose-Cannon Ways a Liability for Spartacus? at TVGuide.com
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August 1, 2008 at 7:01 pm
That is a very enlightening finding. I too would have thought about the progress we've made while ignoring what I would expect in the future. Although some of these questions drive me a bit batty because I often don't feel qualified to answer them. For instance, living in New England I'm hardly in a position to even ask African Americans how they feel about race, much less judge for myself. My sister just married an extremely wonderful African American man, and I wonder if, in our lily white (but supposedly liberal) culture, if they will encounter any problems.
August 4, 2008 at 3:47 pm
I think whites just replied that things are better simply because they don't care. Along the history, it weren't whites the persecuted and discriminated, it was the black people. Whites almost don't have an opinion on the matter, as it doesn't affect them as it affects the 'blacks'.


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The Situation of a "Volunteer" Army
Posted by Jon Hanson & Michael McCann on May 10, 2007
In March, Situationist Contributor Phil Zimbardo posted (as part of a larger series on the situational sources of evil) on some of the basic lessons of the human-behavior studies, including Milgram's famous obedience experiments. According to Zimbardo,
Milgram crafted his research paradigm to find out what strategies can seduce ordinary citizens to engage in apparently harmful behavior. Many of these methods have parallels to compliance strategies used by "influence professionals" in real-world settings, such as salespeople, cult and military recruiters, media advertisers, and others.
Zimbardo then included the following list of ten strategies:
Prearranging some form of contractual obligation, verbal or written, to control the individual's behavior in pseudo-legal fashion. In Milgram's obedience study, subjects publicly agreed to accept the tasks and the procedures.
Giving participants meaningful roles to play — "teacher," "learner" — that carry with them previously learned positive values and automatically activate response scripts.
Presenting basic rules to be followed that seem to make sense before their actual use but can then be used arbitrarily and impersonally to justify mindless compliance. The authorities will change the rules as necessary but will insist that rules are rules and must be followed (as the researcher in the lab coat did in Milgram's experiment).
Altering the semantics of the act, the actor, and the action — replacing unpleasant reality with desirable rhetoric, gilding the frame so that the real picture is disguised: from "hurting victims" to "helping the experimenter." We can see the same semantic framing at work in advertising, where, for example, bad-tasting mouthwash is framed as good for you because it kills germs and tastes like medicine.
Creating opportunities for the diffusion of responsibility or abdication of responsibility for negative outcomes, such that the one who acts won't be held liable. In Milgram's experiment, the authority figure, when questioned by a teacher, said he would take responsibility for anything that happened to the learner.
Starting the path toward the ultimate evil act with a small, seemingly insignificant first step, the easy "foot in the door" that swings open subsequent greater compliance pressures. In the obedience study, the initial shock was only a mild 15 volts. This is also the operative principle in turning good kids into drug addicts with that first little hit or sniff.
Having successively increasing steps on the pathway that are gradual, so that they are hardly noticeably different from one's most recent prior action. "Just a little bit more."
Gradually changing the nature of the authority figure from initially "just" and reasonable to "unjust" and demanding, even irrational. This tactic elicits initial compliance and later confusion, since we expect consistency from authorities and friends. Not acknowledging that this transformation has occurred leads to mindless obedience. And it is part of many date rape scenarios and a reason why abused women stay with their abusing spouses.
Making the exit costs high and making the process of exiting difficult; allowing verbal dissent, which makes people feel better about themselves, while insisting on behavioral compliance.
Offering a "big lie" to justify the use of any means to achieve the seemingly desirable, essential goal. (In Milgram's research the justification was that science will help people improve their memory by judicious use of reward and punishment.) In social psychology experiments, this is known as the "cover story"; it is a cover-up for the procedures that follow, which do not make sense on their own. The real-world equivalent is an ideology. Most nations rely on an ideology, typically "threats to national security," before going to war or suppressing political opposition. When citizens fear that their national security is being threatened, they become willing to surrender their basic freedoms in exchange. Erich Fromm's classic analysis in Escape from Freedom made us aware of this trade-off, which Hitler and other dictators have long used to gain and maintain power.
The June issue of The Atlantic contains a terrific article, "The Army We Have," by Brian Mockenhaupt. It opens with this teaser: "To fight today's wars with an all-volunteer force, the U.S. Army needs more quick-thinking, strong, highly disciplined soldiers. But creating warriors out of the softest, least-willing populace in generations has required sweeping changes in basic training."
In effect, Mockenhaupt's article is quite similar to the human-behavior experiments. It is a study on how the American military transforms "soft" civilians who have "volunteered" for duty into killing machines provides and therefore provides an implicit test of Zimbardo's thesis. Reading Mockenhaupt's piece, we were struck by the extent to which that thesis is confirmed: the volunteer army experiment is a yet another real-world rendition of Milgram's obedience studies.
Mockenhaupt writes:
"Turning civilians into soldiers and teaching them to kill has always been difficult work, but these new challenges and demands have made it harder still, so the Army has made sweeping changes in the basic combat training that every recruit must go through. "
The first trick, of course, is to enlist "volunteers." The word "volunteer," itself invokes images of individuals stepping forward to offer themselves toward the cause. One might even imagine a line of would-be soldiers hoping to get in — trying to serve their country — while military officials select only those who are healthy, strong, tough, smart, and otherwise possessing the right stuff or having what it takes.
No doubt the wagon-circling wake of 9/11, the true volunteer was not uncommon. Today, with wagons on fire, the mission in flux and in doubt, the dangers evident, and patriotic fervor dimmed, lower standards and increased recruitment efforts is now the norm. According to Mockenhaupt,
"the Army has in recent years added thousands of recruiters, more than doubled certain elistment bonuses to $40,000 and granted more enlistment waivers for medical problems, past drug and alcohol abuse, and criminal records. . . . The Army has doubled its admittance of recruits who score between the 15th and 30th percentiles on the Army aptitude test . . . .
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For every potential soldier a recruiter sends to training, he'll talk to 150 to 250 people. He'll find them by making hundreds of cold calls, visiting high schools, and walking through malls. Of these contacts, the recruiter will conduct 20 face-to-face interviews. Four of those applicants will take the Army aptitude test and physical exam. Just over half will score in the top half on the aptitude test. Fewer than half will pass the physical. So by the time recruits make it to training, the Army is keen to keep them there.
So, how to keep them? The "overwhelming need for more solders puts limits on how tough its training can be. . . . The Army's answer . . . for now . . . is to offer its recruits a less hostile environment that won't scare off as many people or make them quit: less shouting, less running, more encouragement, more understanding."
That's all fine. Need to keep the trainees "volunteering" and staying, but the main problem remains: how does the military turn a bunch of kids who, as Colonel Keven Shwedo, the director of operations for the Army's Accessions Command puts it, have grown up in a world of soccer ethics in which you "get a trophy, whether or not you everwent to practice or ever won a game" — how to turn that bunch into "THE FINEST SOLDIERS THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN."
That's where the situation comes in. No more individualistic, dispositionist, me-first egoism so common in our culture. Joining the military transforms one's schemas. Or, as Mockenhaupt makes the point:
Joining the military shocks the system. And the further society drifts from the ideals of the Army—shared hardship, individual sacrifice for the collective good, institutionalized adherence to notions of integrity, loyalty, and duty—the more alien the world of military training becomes. Recruits on their first day shuffle through a line—everything from now on will involve lines—and into the barber shop, where they sit in a chair for about two minutes and rise without hair. It's the quintessential shedding of civilian identity: Now they look like everyone else. Soon they'll be dressed alike. And once they learn the jargon and lingo, they'll sound alike, too. There are no more choices, only following. They'll live so close together—showering, eating, and sleeping next to each other—that they'll soon forget what privacy means. They'll be given a weapon, and they'll marvel at the power they hold. They'll stab dummies with bayonets and subdue each other in hand-to-hand combat. They'll slowly unlearn one of society's cherished mantras: Sometimes, they'll come to understand, violence is the answer.
The rituals of deindividuation and disconnection to social and cultural norms are ubiquitous. Mockenhaupt describes, for instance, a rite of passage for young recruits ("frowned upon at higher levels," but still practiced at lower levels) known as the the "shark attack." The rite, according to many, is "a key step in snapping bonds to the civilian world. "If we go easy on them here, it would be catastrophic over there," explains one basic-training commander. "They expect these guys to be hard on them, and we owe it to them."
At the battalion barracks, where the recruits will live for the next three and a half months, a dozen drill sergeants station themselves at intervals along the wide walkway that runs from the road to the company area. They pace and wait. Three trucks pull up and disgorge the recruits. The chaos starts at once. "Let's go! Let's go! Get off the bus! Get your butt over there, private! Hurry up, you!" The 220 recruits scramble, frantic, knocking into each other, reaching for bags from a pile dumped beside the road. They sprint up the walkway, some with bags, others without. Then they form up in three rows, facing a long cement stairway that leads up to the company formation area. They stand at attention, chests heaving, sucking down air in ragged gasps. Some tremble. Their eyes dart. Many faces show terror. The drill sergeants stalk up and down the lines, their faces fixed in hard masks. They stop behind recruits, inches from their ears, and yell. Every command given today will be many decibels too loud. "What is wrong with you? Why are you moving? Answer me! Why? Don't think, private! Why are you moving? Is it because you can't stand still?" "No, Drill Sergeant," the recruit says, his voice soft and breaking. "Then why are you moving? Don't frigging move!"
Most of the recruits clutch duffel bags to their chests, straining from the effort. Inch by inch, the bags drop lower. "Hold the bag up! Hold it up! Get it up, you turd!"
And so it goes. Once the recruits broken into platoons, the drill sergeant steps forward to offer an initial lesson in thunderous voice: "Discipline is the key to success here! Discipline is doing what you are told, when you are told, no questions! Do you understand?"
But how does the military lead its recruits to "volunteer" to be good soldiers. According to Mockenhaupt, the "core methods are simple":
You must look like everyone else. You must act like everyone else. You must perform like everyone else. If you don't, you will be punished. Or worse, the group will suffer for your mistakes. To instill this obedience, the Army taps into young people's basic desire for acceptance, and their abhorrence at being singled out for punishment or critique.
The threat of collective punishment for individual infractions is one of the most powerful motivators in military training. I learned this lesson early, and repeatedly, in my own basic training. One night as we slept, just a few days into our training, two recruits left the barracks and walked toward town, looking for a convenience store. A drill sergeant driving home picked them up a short distance from the barracks. We were awakened, told what had happened, and told we would be dealt with later. We fell back asleep knowing the morning would bring pain.
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"So you want to play games?" one of our drill sergeants said. "OK, we will play games." He ordered us to squat and hold out our arms. The two recruits stood in front of the formation, watching us and looking sheepish. "Don't be mad at me; be mad at your friends standing up here," the drill sergeant said. He spoke in quick, clipped sentences, through a heavy Puerto Rican accent. "I am not doing this to you—they are doing this to you. Are you tired? Do your legs hurt? You can look toward the sky and say, 'God, why is this happening to me?'"
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The other platoons filed past, stealing glances, on their way to breakfast. We groaned and gritted our teeth. Sweat soaked our clothes. "I want you to be pissed at your friends. They did this to you. They don't want to be part of the team," the drill sergeant barked. "Now you are in Afghanistan. Twenty of you are dead inside your security perimeter. Another 20 of you are prisoners of Osama bin Laden, because two soldiers who were supposed to be on guard duty decided they wanted to go get something to eat." The morning dragged on like that, for what seemed a very long time.
To maintain a volunteer army, then, attributions must be carefully framed, ideologies must be taught, and consent must be manufactured. As the Army is proud of pointing out, it was Army Major General John Schofield (1831-1906) who said (in a speech to West Point cadets), that "the discipline which makes the Soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment. . . . It is possible to impart instruction and to give commands in such a manner and such a tone of voice as to inspire in the Soldier no feeling but an intense desire to obey, while the opposite manner and tone of voice cannot fail to excite strong resentment and desire to disobey."
Milgram, Zimbardo and others have shown us that whether or not we are inclined to obey is not a good measure of whether or not we should. Similarly, whether or not we perceived ourselves to have moved freely is not a good measure of whether or not we did. Whatever one thinks about this war and the "volunteers" who bravely risk their lives to fight in it, no one should assume that because some of our best and brightest have "chosen" to serve that the cause is necessarily a good one. And our harsh judgments toward those seeming bad-apple soldiers linked to Abu Ghraib and the like should be tempered by an understanding of the situation — including the situational forces and systems that led to their being transformed from civilians into soldiers.
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Very few experiments have changed the way we perceive our Universe, but the Kepler exoplanet survey telescope is one such example. Simply by monitoring a single patch of the sky continuously, it provided a new understanding of how many planets exist in the galaxy. Since its launch in 2009, Kepler identified 115 exoplanets with over 2,700 other potential planet candidates—including a number that are comparable in size to Earth or orbiting within the habitable zone where liquid water might exist.
However, Kepler is an orbiting telescope, unreachable by spacecraft for repairs. Today, NASA announced that a reaction wheel—required to keep the telescope pointed steadily in one direction—ceased functioning. This is the second reaction wheel failure, meaning Kepler can't continue to monitor the same stars and their exoplanets it has watched since 2009.
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The telescope can continue to operate in "drift mode," where different portions of the sky could come into view, but it's uncertain how much science could be done in that configuration. Kepler has amassed a great deal of data still to be analyzed, though, so we'll continue to see new papers and announcements from its archives. Kepler will supply our exoplanet needs for some time to come.
Grunsfeld called the mission a resounding success, and few would disagree. Whether engineers get lucky and manage to restart the reaction wheel, Kepler stands as one of the most successful and inspiring of all astronomical endeavors. Kepler's successor, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is scheduled for a 2017 launch.


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More than 200,000 people from 140 countries have applied to go to Mars and never return, AFP reports citing the group behind an ambitious venture to colonize the inhospitable red planet.
Bas Lansdorp, a Dutch engineer and entrepreneur, plans to establish a permanent base on Mars in a mission he hopes will take off in 2022 if he can find the necessary $6 billion.
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The project has the support of Gerard 't Hooft, the Dutch joint winner of the Nobel prize for physics in 1999.
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Space agencies including NASA have expressed skepticism about the viability of Lansdorp's plan, saying the technology to establish a human colony on Mars does not exist.
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It's the end of the month. The end of the mini WriMo I took part in. I'd love to say I crushed it but, in fact, it crushed me.
The way Diana set this challenge up, with all the choices and flexibility, there was kind of no way to fail. But I am spectacularly inept and managed to do it. Fail, that is.
So. I can beat myself up, as I'm wont to do, or I can move on. I can try again next month or wait a month and try again or never try again (ever) and realize this type of challenge is not for me. We'll see.
Regardless, I don't get a badge with a star. But I did get this adorable drawing from the fabulous Ree and I'm excited to have this sweet little Ninny Rhino to keep my cold keyboard company. Maybe she'll inspire me to attempt this challenge again. Who could say no to that face?
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